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"HANDLEY CARR GLYN MOULE (1841-1920), English divine, was born at Dorchester Dec. 23 1841, the youngest son of the Rev. H. Moule, vicar of Fordington, Dorchester, a prominent Evangelical clergyman. He was educated at home, and later at Trinity College, Cambridge, where J. B. Lightfoot was his tutor. He was bracketed second classic in 1864, and in 1866 obtained a first-class in theology. From 1865 to 1867 he was an assistant master at Marlborough, and after a few years of a country curacy became dean of Trinity College (1873-6). In 1880 his position as a prominent Evangelical was recognized by his election as first principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge, an establishment founded for post-graduate training for the ministry. Moule's influence in this position was very great, and he considerably widened his influence by the production of various religious works of a popular kind, among them being Thoughts on Christian Sanctity (1886) and The Secret of the Presence (1901). He also published a Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans (1880) and Outlines of Christian Doctrine (1889). In 1899 Moule, who in 1898 had been made an hon. chaplain to Queen Victoria, was elected to the Norrisian professorship of divinity at Cambridge, but in 1901 he was chosen to succeed Westcott in the bishopric of Durham. He died at Cambridge May 8 1920.

His brothers, Arthur Evans Moule (1836-1918) and George Evans Moule (1828-1912), were both well known as missionaries in China, the former becoming archdeacon of MidChina in 1881, and the latter the first bishop of Mid-China (1880-1908).